Dunno. This is Slashdot where the use of unusual units is common. I picked a random unit from the obligatory XKCD [xkcd.com] and voted based on that. People apparently care more about Netflix that abandoned dogs...:'(

And when I feel like watching I pop one in and watch as much as I feel like, turn it off and finish (or not) later. Currently watching some Three Stooges single-reelers after Amazon dropped the price of the entire collection to $30. Quite amazed how good the production quality of these series was.

I may go months between watching DVDs and then go through several in a short time span. Paying for a service I wouldn't use often doesn't seem to be a good move. Besides, having my own discs means I can decide I want to watch something right now and there it is. It's an adequate solution to a non-existent problem.

Now you made it so I need to make another purchase. Another series I got a while back was the old black and white Addams Family, which has aged fairly well even if it isn't as dark as the comics, or movies, it is still good.

The irony with that is Australians have twice the ISP quality available to them then we do in the U.S. I honestly believe Australians get the same poor speed because of all the packet filtering done on your traffic.

Great combination if you have an interest in anime. Both services are robust, high quality, no ads, great content selection, and all for very reasonable monthly sub prices. (Crunchyroll does not carry dubs, FYI)

So, sometimes I babysit a sweet 4-year-old girl. Remembering being young, and bored as hell in a car, I have a tendency to give her my cell when going from place to place as there's only so much value to staring outside at the same thing over and over again. My cell is outfitted with apps and some media for her age. Apps like Endless Alphabet, Monkey Lunchbox, The Math Tree and so on alongside Pixar and older Disney shorts.

Thing is, my phone also has Netflix and Netflix is set to allow cell data use...

The profiles are a fairly recent feature and while we took advantage of it as soon as it was added my profile still influenced by the time preceding profiles. Additionally the application for the device we use didn't have a search feature enabled when using the childrens profile so for a long while my profile still got used for the kids.

What is it with H2O: Just Add Water? That show pops up all the time for me. Looking it up on IMDB I just now realize it's a TV Show, and can't understand how it would think I would like to watch that show.

I recently broke my leg so I can't go to work. This leaves me with a lot of free time so I watch a lot of Netflix at the moment. Boy am I glad that I didn't break my leg last year. Netflix isn't here that long. Finally I have time to watch some shows that I just didn't get to previously.

So at first I thought, nah, not that much. But then I really thought about it. It adds up quick.

If every night during the week I watch 1 1-hour show with my wife before we go to sleep. Then a movie on each day Sat and Sun, that's already like 10 hours! I didn't realize I was spending so much time watching TV (or at least the modern equivalent of TV). I could easily see someone who is NOT a TV-a-holic put in 20 hours. All you have to do is watch a movie a day, maybe two on weekends, and you're already up there.

That being said, its not like I sit and stare at the screen blankly. Usually my wife and I will converse about whatever it is we're watching, and frequently the weekend shows get interrupted with kids, games, phone calls, reading a magazine, or heck sometimes even sex.

But yeah, I was a little shocked and disappointed in myself when I realized the hour count was so high, because I'll bet its even higher for my kids. I'll have to look into that.

I wonder what my "average" would be. I generally binge on a TV show, where I do something like 4 to 6 hours a day for a week or two, then I don't watch anything for a month. And before anyone decides to create an actual average based on those numbers, keep in mind I pulled them straight out of my ass.

Since I missed the original run when they had Babylon 5 streaming I watched 3-5 episodes a day. It was pretty neat to see the entire arc in a matter of a few weeks and how the characters evolved. Same with Red Dwarf. Now I'm just finishing up X-files But other than that there isn't much there that interests me... wish they would do the entire Dr. Who series, or at the entire set of Tom Baker episodes. But in between interesting series my usage drops pretty low and I spend more time streaming Linux Action Sh

They can't do all of Doctor Who, the BBC literally doesn't have all of it anymore due to a series of purges of their collection of old content in the seventies.

If you're into British TV and are willing to try sitcom-type dramas, look at As Time Goes By. Judi Dench is at the top of her game and it's very amusing, and not nearly so implausible as storylines go as many other sitcoms. I also recommend the Granada Television version of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, the vast majority of the episodes are quite good. We've also found a liking for New Tricks, Inspector Morse, and Inspector Lewis.

Oh yes that version of Sherlock Holmes is very good. I've watched many episodes but haven't finished it yet. It actually motivated me to read the original stories and I took a detour off of television for awhile. And there's Cadfael, another good series (I actually picked that one up when I first saw Sir Derek Jacobi as The Master on Dr. Who). I also watched all the Black Adder episodes too. But I was hoping for more British SciFi, or at least some Dr. Who with Daleks. There are some older pre Eccleston e

It seems that for Netflix, most of the world [thebestofnetflix.com] is unimportant. Population-wise they cover only a small fraction. And as long as most of the world is unimportant to them, they're unimportant to most of the world.

But then, to me, the part of the world where they have their stronghold is pretty unimportant anyway.

But they seem to have a pretty good amount of the land are covered. Looking at that map, it's pretty interesting that most of Europe doesn't have access. I would think that Germany and France would be quite profitable markets. Also, can't figure out Australia. They speak English there, so much of the content from the US version would be easily transferable. I hear they have slow internet, but is it only bad downloading from offshore? because they could set up a datacenter there to fix that problem.

I'm guessing it's differences in copyright regimes. At the very least, negotiating streaming rights with major rights-holders in one country must be exhausing and traumatizing. Having done that for one major country (your own home country and primary market), I could understand being hesitant about doing the whole damn thing over and over again in one tiny* country after another, in the face of borderline-chauvinistic media-corporation protectionism (not to mention "cultural protectionism"... I'm looking at

You can have my Laserdiscs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!

Seriously, we collect media and have for a very, very long time. We have about 800 titles on VHS, close to 550 on Laserdisc, several hundred DVD, and probably 80 Blu-Ray. We also have a smattering of S-VHS stuff that I recorded from broadcast that we occasionally watch. We're somewhere over 1500 titles once redundancies across formats are eliminated from consideration.

As much as I wish that I could simply subscribe to a service to get all of the content that I want, there are too many conditional things going on, like a content provider having content seasonally blocked (recent issues with Grinch come to mind) and having titles withdrawn after awhile. Sorry, I want to be able to watch what I want to watch, when I want to watch it, with no revocation or special conditions upon my watching. Similar reasons are why I'm hesitant to hostile to medialess books and music. I don't want my music collection to go away simply on account of a hard disk drive failure (a'la iTunes) or for my books to go away because the reader croaked, and I don't want a company being able to censor me (like the irony in the withdrawal of 1984 from readers) because of some company-to-company dispute.

Not at all. Remember, in addition to buying all that media, he explicitly said this:

We also have a smattering of S-VHS stuff that I recorded from broadcast that we occasionally watch.

Sony v. Universal pretty clearly indicated that building a library of tapes recorded off the air (as opposed to purely time-shifting) was not a fair use. So it's probably more like, "Sir, you are a model customer. Keep up the good work. Also, you will be hearing from our lawyers shortly. Love, the MPAA."

After all, there's hardly anyone the content industries love to sue more than their customers!

Was zero - but then the kid got a Wii, we piped Amazon Prime through it, and I discovered "Fringe." Since I am part-way through season 4 my viewing time will drop to next to nothing in the not too distant future...on this timeline anyway.

I mean, I watch Netflix fairly regularly during the week, but at least for everyone in our household, turning on Netflix rarely means stopping doing everything else. So does it classify as being sucked in?

For instance, last night my Wife and I put on some Netflix while we sat next to each other and talked about the recent weekend. If that's not spending time engaging in relationships, well damn, news to me.

I watch 3-4x as much TV since I got a DVR and could actually watch things on my schedule intead of theirs. Online video in various forms just ads to it. For once, I'm really glad of Sturgeon's Revelation - even 10% is too much!

I had the nielsen ratings person come to my house, he asked if I have a TV I said yes (I have a PC connected to a 20" and a "TV" (720p 32") sitting about 3 feet away). I told him I watch Hulu, play video games the like on my "TV" and that is all. After about 20 minutes on the phone he tells me that it does not count as a TV and thank you for my time.

I'm not really sure since I've never used Netflix and am not up to speed. I watch TV 1-2 hours a day. I've downloaded series I like to watch. I record programs for later viewing.
Does that count as similar?

Roughly 5 hours. Between Job (part-time webdev), Coding/Fiddling with FOSS on my own time, Eveningschool (A-Level GED), Sewing (currently mending/pimping pants and sewing a pouch for my MacBook Air) and Tango Dancing there's not much time. I like to wind down during the weekdays with a movie though, even if it's late. Just watched Limitless (great one) and Contagion (dito) last week.

Last Weekend without planning to, I wound up dancing on friday, saturday and sunday.... It get's quite adictive, especially w

Most of the time I feel like my Netflix subscription is a waste of money, even at the lowest $ amount. I often go a month or more without using it. But every other month or so, I'll go on a Netflix binge and watch an entire TV series all at once.

On the 'plus' side, my family hasn't had "TV" for 5 years, so Netflix/Hulu/etc., are our "TV". If's amazing how much bandwidth you can get on the same budget if you don't waste money on cable TV or land lines!:-)

I remember saying that paying for cable TV would end up pushing paid television with commercials as the only TV available. Now people are popularizing DRM loving privacy pillaging commercial filled paid online versions of the same poor quality entertainment.

We usually don't watch a series until it's complete (The Tudors), or if we decide we want to start watching a series that's currently playing (e.x. Breaking Bad & Walking Dead), and we need to catch up. Then we can binge watch it for several hours a night for about a week straight. Other times, we won't watch it for weeks at a time.

I currently view no broadcast, cable, or satellite. I used to time-shift to be able to view what little there was worth watching on cable and broadcast at a time convenient to me, not them. When my VCR finally died, I decided they simply wasn't worth my time and trouble anymore to set up something else.I need network anyway and a $7.99/mo Netflix account supplemented by YouTube and whatever works just fine.

A harmless and sometimes entertaining market research question to help pay for the site beats the hell out of a bunch of advertising. Maybe you should start your own slashdot that doesn't have any income.